Abigail Adams

This week in class we read letters between Abigail Adams and her Husband John Adams these letters where written during the formation of our new country and totaled a total of 300 plus letter correspondence between the two. There is a subtle beauty in the letters that Abigail sends to her husband each one carrying a hidden agenda and a purpose that is deeper than just the letter. For the first time in history that I can recall, we get to see a woman’s point of view and a picture of how the home front was during the Revolutionary War. The way Abigail writes she meticulously details all the events which are going around on the home front, she opens up to the reader about her strong political views and she expresses them to her husband in her letters. In the letters that Abigail Adams sends as a reader you get to experience the hardship the fear that the people where facing during the Revolutionary war. Abigail Adams inadvertently uses a lot of rhetoric of crisis whenever she talks about the home front and how people where coping.